Lyndon B. Johnson

Tears well in his eyes. He removes his glasses. And Walter Cronkite speaks: "From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official. President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard time, two o'clock Eastern Standard time, some 38 minutes ago." That was, of course, the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, a very long time ago but nevertheless a day as fresh as yesterday in so many minds, filled as they are by images of Cronkite on TV, and, later, the funeral procession on TV, John Kennedy Jr. in short pants saluting his father's coffin on TV, Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on TV. So it makes some sort of poignant sense that the Museum of Broadcast Communications will be...

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